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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]And to PP what did you mean "if you are in a good W school" Wheaton?[/quote]

[b]Not the PP, but "W school" is shorthand for a cluster of high schools that serve a higher income/higher education demographic in the western portion of Montgomery County, and all have W in their names: Whitman, Wootton, Walter Johnson, Winston Churchill (did I miss one?). Not Wheaton which is located in a lower socioeconomic area of the county.[/b]

Because of where those "W schools" are located, they are full of super-achievers. The PP's point was that another school, like Wheaton, a bright kid can be a big fish and may stand out at college admissions time.[/quote]

Yes -- in Montgomery County, Churchill HS is a W school, and Wheaton HS isn't.

(And for what it's worth, I'd say "affluent/rich" and "poor". The percent of students who are receiving or have ever received FARMS at Whitman, Wootton, Walter Johnson, and Churchill HSs are [u]<[/u]5%, 11%, 18%, and 9%, respectively. For Wheaton HS, it's 80%.)[/quote]

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